Commerce Quotes
473 quotes by 353 authors
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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
— Peter Weiss
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The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by…
— Jonathan Swift
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Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.
— Alan Sugar
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
— John F. Kennedy
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the…
— Bill Frist
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Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing…
— Jim Ryun
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My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.
— Rick Larsen
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We''ll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
— Barack Obama
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When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark…
— Paul Hawken
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We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways…
— Carl G. Fisher
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act…
— Barack Obama
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In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
— Peter Drucker
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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